Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to read more

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning read more

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.